John Pusateri

Under the overhanging yews, The dark owls sit in solemn state, Like stranger gods; by twos and twos Their red eyes gleam. They meditate. Motionless thus they sit and dream Until that melancholy hour When, with the sun's last fading gleam, The nightly shades assume their power. C. Baudelaire ( Sandringham, New Zealand artist John Pusateri)

Metamangament: John Pusateri works with layers of ink, coloured pencil and pastel over soft photographic images to craft vivid, almost hyper-real portraits of owls with an anthropomorphic effect which is at once haunting and whimsical. This allusion is he